NAMM: Sony MDR-7509HD Headphones

Sony’s newest professional headphones, model MDR-7509HD, are designed to address the extraordinary frequency response presented by DSD and high-sampling PCM recording technologies, as well as the closed-type monitoring needs of sound professionals working with higher-resolution digital audio recording and playback gear.

The MDR-7509HD features HD driver units able to realize up to 80kHz, ultrawide-range reproduction; high-power 3000mW power capacity for high level sound monitoring; 360kJ/m³ high-power neodymium magnets enable driver units to reproduce clear midrange; and auranomic, circum-aural headphones designed in accordance with the angle of the ear to eliminate pressure and reproduce a natural, wide soundscape.

The Sony MDR-7509HD professional headphone is planned to be available in March at a suggested list price of $265.